Trailer wiring question

[MikeA57]

My suggestion... Connect the black wire to your marker circuit and forget about the red wire. Problem solved. You have a clearance marker light on the back and you don't have to worry about isolating the turn signals from each other.

DING, DING, DING, DING!!! We have a WINNA!!!! That's what I got to thinking yesterday afternoon. To heck with the Red wire, this just overly complicates things and just having it as a tail light will work fine. I don't have the light bar attached to the trailer yet, just grounded, so I may try hooking the connector up to the truck and probing around with a small jumper and see what I can scare up on there. It would be an interesting experiment and I may even get my 13 yr old's brain thinking in another direction than 4 wheelers and girls....

NAAAHHHHH, that'd never work! :confused2::confused2:

 

[Smallplot]

Well, don't have to be 13 to think about 4 wheelers and girls do we? :laughing:

If you purchased it to use as a marker light, just hook it up that way. Just need to make sure if one of the wires is actually a ground. We just rewired our trailer about a month ago. I did change one thing, I grounded the brakes through my wiring, back to my truck. Had issues over the years of loosing ground (and brakes) when brakes were grounded directly to the trailer frame. Funny how sticks and grass can pull on dangling wires. And yes most lights are grounded through the bolts which attach to the trailer.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

... I may even get my 13 yr old's brain thinking in another direction than 4 wheelers and girls....

You may get him thinking in an additional direction, but you won't replace the 4 wheelers and girls.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

...yes most lights are grounded through the bolts which attach to the trailer.

I haven't see it all, but I've found that most LED lights include a separate ground wire (white). The regular filament type lights are grounded through the mounting bolts.

 

[Smallplot]

I haven't see it all, but I've found that most LED lights include a separate ground wire (white). The regular filament type lights are grounded through the mounting bolts.

You are correct, my apologies. I forgot they we LEDs.

Poor folk like us don't have fancy stuff like lights an all. We just wave cause everyone around here know where we go'in.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

...Poor folk like us don't have fancy stuff like lights an all. We just wave cause everyone around here know where we go'in.

... but have you ever heard directions like "take the second right before where the old Hanson's barn used to be."

Actually trailer lights are a bit of a fascination for me. As a kid we always borrowed trailers and never had the right hook ups for the lights. Now that I have my own trailers it seems like the ultimate luxury to drive at night and not feel worried.

 

[Smallplot]

... but have you ever heard directions like "take the second right before where the old Hanson's barn used to be."

Sure. They usually just say take the road at Hanson's even though a Hanson has not owned the property for 40 years. And the barn burnt because the bucket brigade did not get there in time. Lol.

 

[crbr]

Good reading......

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I must admit that I have found myself slowing down for a large outfit in front of me even if they aren't signaling just because I know the outfit, and I know the owner's farm yard is coming up in a few hundred yards.

 

[boggen]

I must admit that I have found myself slowing down for a large outfit in front of me even if they aren't signaling just because I know the outfit, and I know the owner's farm yard is coming up in a few hundred yards.

i generally pull over to other side of lane some. to keep folks from passing. as well.

been way to many hot rods. thinking they can pass me and tractor or trailer ahead of me in one pass. with near misses.